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TASTE IN WHISKEY.
1t Is Only Formed by the Most Care
fuI Education

1t Is Only Formed by the Most Care
fu1 Education.
s'When you hear people talk about this
whiskey or that being good" said an agent
of wholesale liquor house to Chicago
Herald reporter, "you can say to yourself
that the man who drinks and smacks his
lips knows nothing at all about it, Telling
good whiskey from bad is an art which few
people acquire. buy thousands of barrels
of whiskey every year, and as I buy on my
own judgment, it is not conceited in me to
say that know something about the busi-
ness In the first place no man can be a
judge of whiskey who drinks it. For two
years have tasted whiskey dozens of times
day, but in all that time I have not drank
as much as gill. A glass of whiskey day
would destroy my usefulness. Drinking the
| liquor blunts the fine sense of taste whis-
key expert must possess, and absolute tenn
perance is the first essential. More than
that, man must have fine natural taste to
begin with, and must be careful what he
eats and drinks. I can't eat onion or cheese,
OF drink beer or even soda water, or any
highly ly-spiced food and retain that keen taste
on which. I'd be willing to base an order for
fifty or one hundred barrels of whiskey.
When started in this business spent three
months educating my taste, going to the eel
lar three times daily and smelling of one
| hundred and fifty casks of whiskey of diff
ferent brands. At the end of that period
was taken blindfolded into that cellar, and
as they rolled the barrels up to me told
them every brand simply through my olfac-
tories. Reputation is everything in the
whiskey business. There are in the trade
about one thousand brands, with about forty
brands in the lead as the generally popular
goods. I can tell every one of these by taste
or smell just as surely as if I were reading
the brands on the end of the casks. The
professional whiskeY faster always dilutes
the liquor with water, and sometimes he
| heats the water and whiskey together after
| mixing. His taste is SO fine as to be almost
| infallible, and it is next to impossible to
fool him. The men who guzzle liquor may
be able to tell high-proof goods from that
| which is rank and raw, but that is about all
they can do. Whiskey regulations are made
| or nnarred by the professional tasters, and il
is on their judgment and dictum that the
| trade is carried on. AS you may imagine, q
man with good mouth for whiskey is likely
to find his taste source of satisfactory prof
| it to himself.
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Tuesday, June 2l, 1ss7.
DEMORALIZED.

The noble order of Knights of Labor
grows more and more demoralized. There
seems to be little discipline, and pretty
general reluctance to promptly submit any
longer to the orders of Powderly and the
Home club No sooner is ''secIet" circular
sent out from headquarters than its contents
are made public. And there is much squab-
bling all along the line.
The latest 'secret" circular relates to the
payment of the special assessment laid about
year ago. AS may be remembered, the
general executive board then issued an order
for an assessment of twenty-five cents on
used as "defence fund" to support men on
strike. The board wanted to raise fund of
$500, 600. A twenty-five cent assessment on
the 200, 900 members claimed would pro-
duce this. But there were, it is said, only
729, GIT members on the books as members
of the order, 26, ,753 of whom were in bad
standing In March last Thomas B. Mcclure,
member of the general executive board, said
that they had only got in $3.50 of this
$500, 900. Hundreds of local assemblies had
sent in requests to be excused from payment
of the assessment. Within the last few days
secret circulars have been received by local
assemblies in New York city, some of them
suspended for months and others of recent
formation, both barred by circumstances
from payment of the twenty-five cent assess
ment, demanding the payment of this special
assessment within twenty days under penalty
of expulsion. A member of the order in
New York city is reported as saying: Very
few of the Knights of Labor in this region
will pay this assessment.
Thus is fading the dream of mighty des
potism which Powderly and his companions
were so pleased with and which for time
frightened many. 1t is not probable that the
general executive board could now carry or
great strike, and it is evident that it doesn
want to undertake to. The decentralization
which exists in the order was inevitable
The Knights for time increased in number
go rapidly that they could not be properly
instructed. They entered the order with ex
travagant hopes which have not been full
filed. They have been assessed more thar
was agreeable, and they have good ground
for thinking that some of their leaders have
been using the order selfshly, not to say dis
honestly. There is, therefore, more trouble
than it seems possible to overcome.
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ZEN GLISH.

English as She is Spoke.-"Where do you
take your vacation this years" ~ intend to
take it with me when I go in,o the country" +"
Boston Transcript.
The baby believes in the motto, ga place
for everything and everything in its place, u
and her place for everything is her mouth.
Proud Somerville Journal.
An exchange mentions the fact of a citizen
dying at the green old age of SO years. A
man who is green at the age of SO years
ought to die.-Newman Independent.
Mrs. Nouveau Riche-Aw, yes, that's very
pretty, but don't like the title ''Common
Prayer" Haven't you-aw-any other kind
I don't care how much have to pay.-Har-
per's Bazar.
A countryman saw one of those double
deck, self-acting bustles in one of our mil
linery stores the other day and went in, but
did not buy it. Said he thought the darned
thing was a fish basket.--Gorham Mountain
eer.
We can spot New England man every
time There is one out in Vermont, Ill. He
plants sunfower seed to each hill of beans.
The stock serves for pole, while the seed
makes excellent chicken feed.-Burlington
Free Press.
sfCan the mind conceive of such thing as
no time?' asks reformer. Certainly it can.
When a woman says she will be in a dry
goods store no time at all, just take out your
watch aud see how close it comes to two
hours.-Tid Bits.
AS an item of interest it might be stated
that pile of strength that would reach
half way to the moon is wasted in this coun-
try every year by people holding up hymn
books in church who don't know a b-fat
note from the howl of brindle cat.-Dakota
Bell.
Nebraska Farmer-ssThese railroads are
getting entirely too numerous and impudent
but I'll fix 'em."
Railroad OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES what dc
you propose to do about itl"
Nebraska Farmer-"Why, you see, they
run so blamed slow that I've brought suit fol
damages against 'em for shadin' the crops
Omaha World.
A clergyman in the little village of Mill
er's Falls went with party blackberrying
over at Wendell. The berry was found in
such abundance that he drove his team be
side the road and picked plenty while sitting
in the carriage. He also stopped at a farm
house and bought half bushel to take
home. Subsequently in telling of his berry
experiences at farmhouse sewing circle ht
said: ''Why, they were SO thick that l. coule
sit in my carriage and pick them, and
brought home half bushel" This was tot
| much for the credulity of his neighbors, wh'
at once accused him of lying, more than on
| of the sisters remarking, 81 never want t.
| hear him pray or preach again, because b
| lies o."-Springfeld Republican.
| A lot of chairs all in row
Comprised the fast express;
Conductor, noisy Master Fred,
The passenger, wee Bess.
Past Lansdown Northbrook, Riverside
1t swiftly onward sped,
Each stop with gravity announced
By pompous Master Fred.
But running short of names at last,
Heaven i'' he loudly cried
At this BeSS got up and seized
The grip sack by her side,
And said in tone demure, sincere,
Il dess I'll dit out here -
-Harper's Bazar.
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mated in the editorial rooms and been as
signed to writer's of established reputation
to be worked up. About the average num-
Der of articles to one issue of magazine
like Harper's is fourteen. Take the hun
dreds sent in for each number and you can
judge for yourself how limited the chances
of success are."
what kind of literature is most likely to
meet acceptance?"
''Short stories and poems. Women are far
more successful in writing these than men.
They are better equipped to meet the de-
mands of the age. Most stories sent to the
magazines by men embody some attempt at a
plot. Now almost every conceivable plot
has been invented, and it is almost miracle
when anything strikingly original comes to
US. Women, on the other hand, are more
apt to employ situations which admit of q
portrayal of subtle shades of feeling. These
are the successful story writer's of the pres
ent day. In poems the same holds good.
Men write poems of description and action,
women of passion and feeling"
"Can you mention a few men who have
made their way to reputation through the
medium of the magazines?'
eyes, there is Robert Buns Wilson, the
poet. He has never published volume of
verse to my knowledge, yet his reputation
stands high. Then there is Joel Chandler
Harris, who first made hit by periodical
literature. George w. Gable owes much to
the magazines and SO does Tom Paige. L
could mention a number of others such as
w. H. Bishop, but their number is small
compared with the number of women who
have succeeded
Chow are articles and stories paid for by
periodicals?'
"Well, the best of them have an estab-
lished rate, generally ten dollars per one
thousand words. OF course this is not an
infiexible rule. Some especially good arti-
cles are paid special prices. For example we
have paid as high as one thousand dollars for
hve-page poem. Stories generally run
from one hundred dollars to two hundred
and fifty dollars. The prices fuctuate a
great deal. Much depends upon the reputa-
tion of the author. A man like Bret Harte
or woman like Constance Fennimore Wool
son can make demands which others could
not. Generally speaking young writer's have
a poor chance to make living from the
magazines. Some prefer to try book, but
publishers are chary and the international
copyright is still a thing of the future.
Young writer's, however, should consider
this, very few of the successful literary men
of the day achieved reputation until late in
| life. If they have talent let that give them
| confidence that they will sooner or later gain
| the reputation they SO much covet."
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who is known as the translator of Balzacs
novels.
Modern sanitarians have accomplished
much. Discussing recent advances in pre-
ventive medicine, DR.. Rome says: In Michi-
gan, the saving of life from one disease (scar-
let fever) has amounted during the past II
years to 3,718, or 33S per year. In 1886.
appropriate sanitary measures saved the lives
Of 2s8 persons who would have died of diph-
iberia if such measures had not been en-
forced. In England and Wales, the average
annual saving of life due to sanitary meas
ures has amounted in the five years ending
1885 to $4,000. In Baltimore marked re-
duction of deaths from infectious diseases
has followed the enforcement of certain sani-
tary precautions. In Memphis the death
rate has been reduced in six years from So
per thousand to $3.50 per thousand. In
Chicago the reduction in mortality in the
last Eve years has been from $3.50 per thou-
sand to 10 .46 per thousand, a net saving of
II, ,214 lives in that city during that period.
Garfield university, at Wichita, Kansas,
is now approaching completion. The main
building covers one and quarter acres and
is five stories high. The chapel will seat
5000 people. There will be hall for male
students and another for female students.
The rooms in these halls will be rent free and
board will be furnished at actual cost. The
grounds of the campus have been laid out
by competent landscape gardener and will
contain many varieties of trees and shrubs
and botanical garden. The university will
teach all the branches usually taught in the
great universities. It will have a we'll
equipped astronomical observatory, and its
| college of medicine will be supplemented by
large hospital. It's commercial college is
already in operation, having 800 students.
The university is mile and half from the
heart of Wichita, which now claims a popu-
Iation of $4,000 and is growing fast. There
| are nine or ten other institutes of learning in
| or near Wichita, and the Friends are now
1 laying the foundations for the John Bright
university, which will be the largest institu
| ton of that denomination in the United
| States
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HINTS FOR YOUNG WRITER'S.

Some of the Reasons Why They Don't
Get More of Their Articles Pub.
Iished.
From the Kansas City Times
The editor of Harper's Magazine, Mr.. Will
liam M. Alden, is as busy man as you can
find in town. His desk is always heaped
with manuscripts of all kinds, from all sorts
of people, on all sorts of subjects, and they
come from all parts of the universe. The
first impression one gets as he looks at Mr..
Alden's desk is that one of Uncle Sans mail
sacks have been emptied upon it. This is
far from true, because the letters piled there
have been very carefully read by another
person, whose duty it is to sift the wheat
from the chaff ana to decide whether the ar
ticles he reads are meritorious. If he thinks
so he outlines the plot in few lines on a
little slip of paper, pins it to the article and
sends it to Mr.. Alden, who is final arbiter,
and who decides whether any of the articles
shall be used. A good deal depends upon
availability. A very good article may be
too long or too short, or may have been re-
Gently touched upon, or else contain some
idea that the editor does not approve. But
let Mr.. Alden speak for himself.
"What chance is there for a young writer
in New York nowadaysa" I ask.
ga fair chance, think" he replies.
"What I mean is, suppose young man or
woman should come to town with no other
capital than supposed talent for writing,
what sort of headway could they make and
what are their chances of success?'
"The chances are greatly against them
making money. My long experience as a
magazine editor has given me abundant op-
portunity to study the subject; therefore I
can speak from experience and not conjec-
ture. Take young man fresh from college,
a student of literature, who has given evil
dence Of ine talents during his course of
study, and he will be least likely to succeed
a magazine or newspaper writer. The
reason is obvious. His mind has been dwell
ing in the past, his attention has been alb
sorbed in text books while the feeting events
of the passing day remain unheeded. Set
him down to pen an article and he will in all
probability write an elaborate and learned
disquisition on some subject which has no
timely or public interest. The magazine
idea, as embodied in Harper's Monthly and
the Century, has much of newspaper char.
acter. What we want is something novel
and interesting, some exclusive Information
of Importance, some stirring description OF
contemporaneous character. It is the matter
we desire. not the style, although good wri-
ting is also an essential element in magazine
articles. You can see therefore the Difficult
ties in the way of new comers. In the first
place it is not an easy matter to hit upon an
acceptable subject, and in the second place
two-thirds of the articles that appear each
month in the leading periodicals have origi-
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-06-21
A BUYING Time.

The forced sale made necessary by our
consolidation with Chamberlain & Currier,
the great clothiers of Boston, to take place ON
July 1, may be recorded as great success
in the clothing trade. 1t met popular
demand, and met satisfactorily. To buyers
throughout the State it has recommended
itself, and they have come as they never
came before to take advantage of its oppor-
tunities. And they are many for all classes
of buyers, for men, young men and boys.
No clothing house has ever offered suits of
equal value at the price. Our object is not
money, but room-room for the stock that
will come to US by the consolidation. Prices
are mutilated and reduced to fractions
halves and smaller denominations. Bona
fde! No juggling, and no marking up to
mark down. Goods must go, if possible,
before July 1. A jolly buying time Suits
of all grades, patterns and styles.
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a Valuable
Book.

Below we give partial table Of
contents of the fourth edition of the
Flower Family Formula Book:-
1. Formulas for the Toilet.
II. The Care of the Hair.
III. The Care of the Teeth.
". The Treatment of Consumption
V. Sore Throat.
VI. Group.
VII. Headache.
VIII. Hints and Helps.
TX. Miscellaneous Receipts.
x. A Word to the Women.
XI. Contagious Diseases.
XII. Diarrhea, Cholera Morbus,
Bilious Collie.
XIII. Burns.
XIV. Pneumonia.
XIV. Erysipelas.
This little encyclopaedia of useful
household information, with its great
number of most valuable formulas,
will be sent free, postpaid, to every
reader of this paper who forwards his
or her name and address to the
R. C. Flower Medical Co., Boston, Mass.
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Choking Catarrh.

Have vou awakened from disturbed sleep with
all the horrible sensations of assassin clutching
your throat and pressing the life breath from your
frightened chest? Have you noticed the languor and
debility that succeed the effort to clear your throat
and head of this catarrhal matter? What depress-
ing influence it exerts upon the mind, cloudlng the
memory and filling the head with pains and strange
o;ses How difficult 1t is to rid the nasal passages
throat and lungs of this poisonous mucus all can
testify who are afflicted with catarrh How diff
ress towards the lungs, liver and kidneys all phys
clans will admit. 1t is a terrible disease and cries
out for relief and cure
The remarkable curative powers, when all other
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regarding it that cannot be substantiated by the
most RESPECTABLE and reliable references.
Each packet contains one bottle OF the RADICAL. A
PROVED INHALER, with treatise and directions. and
is sold by all druggists for $1.Oo.
PorrER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., BOSTON.
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Worcester, Massachusetts, is disturbed by
some bold, bad men who want to take part
of the fine old Common for a site for the
new postoffce. They will probably be de-
feated, as they ought to be. The Common is
as valuable to Worcester as the Green is to
Na1u Havan
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HOW MY SIDE ACHES

a From the bench and the counter, from
a. h the loom and sewing machine goes up
"a g the cry of pain and weakness. Aching
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hv the Cutfcura Amtf-Rain Plaster. New,
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EDITORIAL NOTES

Wheat still lower yesterday. There was a
deep hole in that corner.
The German government keeps on expel-
ling Socialist agitators from the chief cities
of the empire, and they come to this very
free country. This is certainly a kind OF
immigration which ought to be restricted.
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Brain and Nerve Food.
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Attention has been recently directed to the
present state of the tenth national census,
which was begun in 1880. Although the
time is close at hand when preparations
must be made for the next decennial emu
neration, it appears that considerable por-
tion of the statistics collected in 1880, sufh-
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